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“The DOJ’s request is almost literally without precedent. No state judge in California history has ever placed a correctional institution into receivership.”

And California City is facing a fiscal crisis, after among other things losing the state correctional facility.

Workers in state prisons and local correctional facilities, including inmate workers and correctional staff, were exempted from the rule after state officials raised cost concerns.

The state is planning to build a second detention center at a correctional institution that was shuttered in 2021 after numerous reports of excessive violence and abuse of inmates by guards.

A Riverside County state correctional facility housing nearly 3,000 inmates is slated to close in fall 2026, continuing a wave of recent prison shutdowns, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced Monday.